Improvement in cloth-guide for sewing-machines



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Cloth Guide for Sewing Machines.

Patented Dec. 29, 1868.

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WI LLIAM CARPENTER, OF FAIRBURY, ILLINOIS. Letters Patent No. 85,364.,dated December 29, 1868.

IIVHPROVEME NT IN CLOTH-GUIDE FOR SEWING-MACHIFES The Schedule referredto in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Be it known that I, WILLIAM CARPENTER, of Fairbnry, in the county ofLivingston, and State of Illinois, have invented a new and improvedBasting and Self-Guiding Attachment to Sewing-Machines; and I do herebydeclare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ofthe construction and operation of the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference I marked thereon.

My invention consists of an attachment, constructed as herein described.

A. is a metallic plate, with a long slot in it, to vary the width of theseam, and is fastened to the-machine by the guide-screw.

B B are steel slides, which are intended to slide parallel with the edgeof the cloth, through holes in plate A, to which is attached a smallspring, pressing the slide, causing a tension.

C O are cloth-pincers, attached to slide B B, which hold the edges ofthe'cloth together, and are drawn with the slide toward the needle, bythe feed of the 2 machine.

D is a spring, to hold the pincers suificiently to the cloth, so thatthe cloth, when fed forward, will draw the slide with it, and guide thework to the needle.

I The dotted line E shows the lower jaw of the pincers under the cloth FF.

G is a small plate-guide, to which are brought the edges of the cloth.

The operation is follows:

Set the guide the proper distance from the needle,

to make the desired width of seam, with the guide-.

screw that accompanies every machine. Draw out the slide toward theoperator, and put the two pieces of cloth to be sewed together, underthe presser-ibot of the machine, and in the pincers. While the machineis sewing the length between the pincers and the'needle, prepare anotherlength. In taking hold of the pincers O O with the left hand, the clothis liberated, and the slide can again be drawn out to its full length,and so on until the end is reached, without stopping the machine Theteeth of the pincers are so out that in case the operator should forgetto draw out' the guide, no damage will be done, as the cloth will drawthrough when it reaches the stop. e Having thus fully described myinvention,

What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The combination of slide B B, pincers G O, and metallic plate A, allconstructed and operating substantially as and for the purposedescribed.

Witnesses: WILLIAM CARPENTER.

E. H. SWEETSER, B. F. BURCH.

